In 1974 I was with my friend helping to feed donkeys in nearby farm. Farmer grabbed me from behind, dragged me by my wrist, forced me into a dirty shed, pushed me onto his lap, grabbed my face & forced his tongue into my mouth! I was 10. My friend screamed, he let go, we ran..1/
We hid in his farm, shaking and terrified, we saw his van, we ran past it towards the road, he came after us, we were small enough to squeeze under wire fence into field opposite farm, we ran for our lives! When we got to our estate we vowed not to tell because we would be..2/
In trouble for being at the farm, I went home, my friend went home, I fell in a heap the moment I saw my mum, my dad came home, he took me to friends house, both dad's talked outside, my friend looked petrified! She mouthed "did you tell" I nodded, she looked terrified. My dad.3/
Took me home, I heard dad telling mum my friend "makes stories up and her dad would see to her", my mum rejected this, my parents called the police, two officers came to our house, they told my dad "we know this farmer, he has done this before"..I had to describe in detail..4/
What farmer had done, the police officers looked at eachother, they smiled, they spoke to my dad in our kitchen, dad said the police thought it may be "two girls making stuff up", my dad was angry. I heard him shout. Dad was told to calm down. Nothing was ever said about this..
Ever again to me. I grew up thinking I had done something wrong. The police never told us what happened and my friend wasn't allowed out to play for months afterwards. She got a right beating off her dad! I carried this around in my head all my life, to this day I flinch if...
Anyone touches my wrist. I was a 10 year old girl, who loved animals, a dirty, disgusting old man brutally forced himself on me, if my friend hadn't screamed I know he would not have stopped! My friend then got brutally beaten by her dad. I still have nightmares #EnoughIsEnough
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